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sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:

>Ok... what does one do exactly to install these fonts.  I did the  
>buildafmdir and everything looks ok.  However, when I use the  
>FontInstaller from Adobe, it creates afm, bitmap and outline directories.   
>Is buildafmdir supposed to create these directories also, or is this  
>something special about FontInstaller.app?
Probably the latter. :)

What you do is to open a terminal window.

From there, cd to ~/Library/Fonts (if you want to keep the fonts
for yourself) and to /LocalLibrary/Fonts if you want to make them
public.  (If the latter, you should have to su first).

Then, for each font file (/somedir/fontfile.tar.Z):
zcat /somedir/fontfile.tar.Z | tar xvf -

This will unpack fontfile.tar.Z, create an appropriately named
subdirectory and place the font and afm files there.

When you've unpacked all fontfiles, run buildafmdir:
buildafmdir

You *may* have to run cacheAFMData too, but it seems that buildafmdir
does (or is supposed to do) it automatically.

Ta da.  The new fonts should be available from any font panel
except Terminal's.